Broom-bracye.



No. 637,287. Patented Nov. 21, I899.

A. sAHLsTRim & J. E. MURDOCK.

BROOM BRAGE.

(Application filed Sept. 6, 1898.;

(No Model.)

Witnesses.- [TU/7Lt07$. {My MW 45% W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST SAHLSTRUM AND JAMES E. MURDOCK, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

BROOM-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,287, dated November21, 1899.

Application filed. September 6, 1898. Serial No. 690,383i (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Aoeosr SAHLs'rRoM and J AMES E. MURDOGK, residingat Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented anew and useful Elastic Broom-Brace, of which the following is aspecification.

The improvement relates to the class of inventions intended to keep thebroom from spreading and to protect the corn from breaking and servesthe additional original purpose of giving elasticity to the broom. Theseobjects are attained by the following coutrivance.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents the inventiondetached, and Fig. II represents the invention attached to a broom.

Similar letters in both figures represent similar parts.

In the figures, a is a loop that encircles the broom above the binding.The wire forming this loop is bent at one end to form a short clasp 1),(shown in Fig. 1,) which passes through the broom in the center andengages the opposite sides of the loop. This clasp serves the doublepurpose of keeping the corn evenly divided in the two ends of the loopand keeping the loop from spreading. The other end of the wire formingthe loop is bent to form the curve 0, over which the clasp b asses tolock the loop a, keeping the brace from sliding in the angle formed bythe clasp b. Thence it extends to form the spring or brace d, whichpasses up to the broom-handle,where it is fastened by the bent andpointed end e. The spring d serves to hold the loop in posi tion andalso acts as a spring to give addi= tional elasticity to the broom.

What we claim as original in this invention is the following:

In a broom-brace, the combination with a loop encircling the broom and aclasp passing through the broom, engaging the opposite sides of theloop, of an elastic brace, (1, con tinuous with the loop through anintervening locking curve, c, and terminating in the bent and pointedend, 6, by which it is fastened to the broom-handle, all made of onepiece of wire.

18 AUGUST SAHLSTROM.

1118.1 V JAMES E. MURDOOK. Witnesses:

CHRISTIAN Foss, WILLIAM BERY.

